Issues with DISA STIG guidance and /etc/pam.d/passwd
In running through the excercise of hardening a vSphere 5.1 environment, I am having difficulty with implementing a particular security control. When I implement the "remember=5" switch as described...
View Articlexrandr showing one virtual display, mirroring it to each monitor in...
I'm trying to get each display on a computer available to a Linux guest (Ubuntu 13.04) provided as a separate virtual device. But instead of doing this, I get one virtual device in xrandr and the...
View ArticleVMware Detection Patch
I work from home as a self-employed contractor. My work environment runs on a DVD that loads Ubuntu on PC start up. So, you cannot run in a Windows environment, and there are only select tools...
View ArticlevCenter Converter Unable to Convert Win764bit?
Is this a known limitation ? I am unable to using a trial of vmware workstation 9 converter 5.0.0 build 470252Craig
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Windows 8 & 64-bit Guest OS Support
Hi All, I just moved a Windows 7 64-bit Guest VM to Workstation 9 on running on a Windows 8 host and all seems lost... My host PC is a Gateway NE56R41u with an Intel Pentium B960 CPU, which does not...
View ArticleSat in VCAP5-DCA exam
I sat in VCAP5-DCA exam. I wonder if VMware provides marks for partially complete lab activity. Every single lab activity has sub question/ activity. If I complete only 1 out fo 3 activities in a...
View ArticleFailed install of VMware Workstation 9 on fresh install of win 7
I have looked at the Failed VMware Workstation 9 install discussion, verified I am an administrator, cleaned out %TEMP% and looked at the registry and am still having problems. The account name being...
View ArticleItems needed for implementing SRM5.0 with a VNX5300 with ESXi5.0
Hi, I know from reading the documentation I need to appropriate SRA, which I have. The issues I am seeing is I can not find what particular NavCLI I need to download.. Do I need to download and...
View ArticleNvidia GRID K1 + Asus ESC4000 G2 + ESXi 5.1.0 Build 1117900
I am looking for some help with GRID K1 and VIEW 5.2: Card is in the server, BIOS is set to load on-board card first, GRID K! card is reporting and set in Advanced Settings>Directpath I/O>Edit...
View ArticlevRAM
Hi,we have a number of servers, vsphere 5.1 ent plus is installed. i think i know the vram entitlement but just wanted to make sure i am right in my thinking. if you have 1 server with 2 processors...
View ArticleI Can't Use This
Seriously. I can't use VMware Fusion. I haven't been able to use it for quite some time. Here's why: When running a freshly installed instance of Windows 7 (64 bit Ultimate w/ 2 CPUs and 2 GB RAM in...
View ArticleOS X 10.9 Mavericks support
OS X 10.9 Mavericks reports 'disk error' when trying to create a VM in 5.0.3 & this TP2013 (v6) (on MBP & iMac running 10.8.3/4). Hopefully this will be rectified in the near future even though...
View ArticleInvalid Configuraiton for Device 0 - View 5.2
Hi all, A very annoying and frustrating issue is arising when View 5.2 configures a new Pool of linked-clones from a pre-existing main image and snapshot. When Vsphere 5.1 gets to the point of cloning...
View ArticleFlickering screen using Fusion 5.0.3 on latest 2013 (Haswell) MacBook Air
Hi all, I just got one of the new Haswell-based MacBook Airs and have installed the latest Fusion (5.0.3) on it to run Windows 8 (x86). It installed fine but now I get a large dark area flickering on...
View ArticleProduct Name Field
I built an appliance with Studio and gave the product name field a very generic name (My Template). My hope was that when I deployed the appliance, I'd be able to use ovftool to translate the name to...
View ArticleWhy needs an update of VMware workstation at all one and since v7 2 reboots?
Up to VMware Workstation 6 an update to the next higher major or minor version has need one reboot, Since version 7 (also with v8, v9 I havn't tried up to now) it needs always two reboots. This is...
View ArticlePossible to have two vMotion vmk ports on an ESX Host?
Hello community! I believe it's possible to have two vmk ports marked for vMotion traffic on the same host? I'm preparing to migrate VMs to a new cluster and the vMotion VLAN is different on each...
View ArticleP2V Ubuntu 10.04
Hi, I am trying to P2V a couple of Ubuntu server using the Converter Standalone client 5.1. I have tried to enable sudo to not use passwords, as described in the following KB article VMware KB:...
View ArticleUnable to add workload entry
Curious to know if you have any input on a problem in which we can successfully add the ESX hosts while in the “master” analyzer VM and the I/O Analyzer VMs are correctly listed from the ESX hosts...
View ArticleHow to setup an HDD for file storage
I've just setup a new server with the free version of ESXi 5.1 installed on a USB stick. I have migrated my 10, Win7 VM's from Vmware Workstation to my 3 new HDD's on the ESXi host and have accessed...
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